TUFTS UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS

Physics 13 Fall 1998
General Physics III

Introduction to Modern Physics

Gary R. Goldstein

Department of Physics
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155
USA
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(last revision 16DEC98)


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  1. Syllabus

  2. Homework Assignments

  3. Homework Solutions and Last Year's Final (Homework solutions written by B. Jun; all posted via link to Engineering Project Development Center where hard copies are available for viewing.)

  4. Exam schedule EXAM 2 -- 1998 -- SOLUTIONS

  5. Extra Credit Problem Note that there are now instructions for using MAPLE to solve this problem.

    This work will be due during the last week of classes.

  6. Final Exam - 1997 - Solutions Helpful hints: Make sure you can do problems II through V. (Don't worry too much about IId,e,f.) Your exam will have similar problems. Be sure you can do the extra credit problems (solutions posted), particularly 3.10, 3.27, 4.20, 4.32, 5.21 (definitely!). Also do homework 8, 6.20, 6.21, 7.24. Make sure you can do the problems on the previous exams. Go over the lecture notes for Particle Physics and Cosmology for qualitative understanding.


    Announcements

    Special Review Session - Tues. Dec.15 - 11:00 AM - Robinson 250

    This year's Nobel Prizes are for Quantum Physics phenomena -link to New York TImes article

    The highest resolution (0.78 Angstrom) picture of a crystal

    P. Nellist, Physical Review Letters 81, 4156 (1998).



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